How does your garden grow?

How does your garden grow? The answer to that question for many of us is - badly.

There are people among us with the greenest of thumbs, able to grow enough vegetables to feed every family in the neighbourhood, enough flowers to fill every vase in town. Others carry an evil curse - one look at a thriving plant sends its perky leaves south.

It takes experience and the will to get some dirt under your fingernails to develop a gardening brain. But, if you don't have the time, ABC Gippsland's gardening series may help fill in the gaps.

Mornings presenter Celine Foenander has enlisted the help of local gardening experts Morris Holmes, Rod McMillan, Michele Adler and Nancy Morgan to share their tips and tricks on getting your patch in tip top shape.

Former Sale nurseryman Morris Holmes brings a lifetime of experience in vegetable growing while Nancy Morgan who owns a nursery has a thorough understanding of gardening trends, based on the enquiries and demands of her customers. Rod McMillan and Michele Adler were both lecturers in horticulture at the University of Melbourne's Burnley College. They've spent years writing and talking about gardening and now they put all that theory into practice at their property 'Peach Flat' near Briagolong.

This series takes a 'back to basics' approach to gardening and will help you know when to plant seeds, how to care for your plants, when and where to mulch and how to keep unruly plants and trees in check.

Our experts take you through each project step by step and just for good measure, there are photographs to help you along the way.